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Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. A number of common names make reference to the fact that some species of woodlice can roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig. The collective noun is a quabble of woodlice. [9] Common names include:
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals.
Armadillidium vulgare Armadillidium vulgare in the rolled-up defensive posture characteristic of pill bugs Armadillidium pictum "Pill bugs" of the family Armadillidiidae are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata, which is also widespread and common in Britain and Ireland, but pill millipedes have two pairs of legs per body segment, while woodlice have only seven pairs ...
Armadillidae is a family of woodlice (Oniscidea; terrestrial crustaceans), comprising around 80 genera and 700 species. It is the largest family of Oniscidea, and one of the most species-rich families of the entire Isopoda. [1] [2] Most of the armadillidae taxa are not monophyletic.
Armadillidium (/ ɑːr m ə d ɪ ˈ l ɪ d i ə m /) is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata.
Philosciidae is a family of woodlice. They occur almost everywhere on earth, with most species found in (sub)tropical America , Africa and Oceania , and only a few in the Holarctic realm . Genera
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Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse [2] or fast woodlouse, [3] is a common European woodlouse.It is widespread in Europe, the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to Ukraine and Greece. [4]